This may be why the conservative has an advantage in such an age of speedy change and is frequently more radical in his suggestions and insights than the progressive who is trying to adjust. The practical progressive trying to make realistic adjustments to change exhausts himself and has no energy to contemplate the overall.
Letter to Claude Bissell, March 8, 1960 in Letters of Marshall McLuhan (1987), p 65
Year: 1960
Chapter:
Anticipating Change
Compiled by William Kuhns
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan